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To break cover, to start from a covert
or lair; -- said of game. -- Under cover,
in an envelope, or within a letter; -- said of a written
message.

Letters . . . dispatched under cover to her
ladyship.

Thackeray.

Cov"er, v. i. To spread a
table for a meal; to prepare a banquet. [Obs.]
Shak.

Cov"er*chief (chēf), n. [See
Kerchief.] A covering for the head. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

Cov"er*cle (k?v"?r-k'l), n. [OF.
covercle, F. couvercle, fr. L.
coöperculum fr. coöperire. See
cover] A small cover; a lid. [>Obs.] Sir T.
Browne.

Cov"ered (k?v"?rd), a. Under
cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.

Covered way (Fort.), a corridor
or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an
embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrison an
open line of communication around the works, and a standing place
beyond the ditch.


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